ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,426, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device having partial ledger in blockchain network and operating method thereof" was invented by Woongah Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wooup Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device constituting a first blockchain node included in a blockchain network may generate an encryption key corresponding to a transaction based on obtaining a transaction generation request, transmit information of the encryption key to at least one blockchain node related to the t...